House of the Guardian to the Funerary Rock at Machu Picchu

This guide to the House of the Guardian to the Funerary Rock at Machu Picchu follows Hiram Bingham's 1911 climb behind a barefoot boy, and the mortarless walls that stopped him in his tracks. It covers the small thatched hut that controlled the path into the sacred sector, and the carved boulder just below it, cut with steps and a ring, near dozens of burial sites archaeologists later found holding mostly women. The hut's grass roof, woven from ichu grass, is the only original roofing still standing anywhere on the site.